Eclipse Device Software Development Platform (DSDP) Announces Three Milestone Releases.Series of DSDP DSDP Deep-Sea Drilling Project DSDP Deflect, Segment and Drop Policy (IEEE) Releases Demonstrate the Growing Significance of Eclipse for Device Software Developers OTTAWA -- The Eclipse Foundation The Eclipse Foundation leads the development of Eclipse, the open-source Java application platform and IDE. History In 2003–2004 the Eclipse Consortium, an unofficial consortium of software industry vendors led by IBM, founded The Eclipse Foundation, a , an open source community committed to the implementation of a universal software development platform, today announced three milestone releases within the Eclipse Device Software Development Platform (DSDP). Founded in 2005 as a top-level Eclipse project, the mission of DSDP is to create an open, extensible, scalable and standards-based development platform to address the needs of the device software market. This series of releases demonstrates the growing momentum and diversity of projects in DSDP. Created by Wind River, the DSDP project now has over 40 committers from ten companies and contains more than 550,000 lines of code The statements and instructions that a programmer writes when creating a program. One line of this "source code" may generate one machine instruction or several depending on the programming language. A line of code in assembly language is typically turned into one machine instruction. . Beyond highlighting momentum within DSDP, these milestone releases demonstrate an increasing significance of Eclipse to the device software market overall. As they move forward, the DSDP projects are aiming to help developers and vendors create specialized spe·cial·ize v. spe·cial·ized, spe·cial·iz·ing, spe·cial·iz·es v.intr. 1. To pursue a special activity, occupation, or field of study. 2. , interoperable The ability for one system to communicate or work with another. See interoperability. solutions so that customers and users of Eclipse-based products can develop device software faster, better and at lower cost. DSDP Milestone Releases The three DSDP projects achieving milestone releases include:
1. Target Management (TM), release version 1.0
Mission: The goal of Target Management is to create data
models and frameworks to configure and manage embedded
systems, their connections and services. Since there are many
different vendors and solutions in the device software space,
the main charter of target management is to provide data
models and frameworks that are flexible and open enough for
vendor-specific extensions. For the 1.0 release, sample
implementations will be provided for TCP/IP connections,
FTP data transfer and GDB remote launching in the CDT
environment. The base technology for the TM project is an
open-source version of the IBM Remote System Explorer.
1.0 Features: Remote System Explorer framework, CDT remote
launch capabilities and integrated Jakarta Commons Net library
for FTP access.
Contributors: Wind River (project lead), IBM, MontaVista,
PalmSource, Symbian and Tradescape.
Supports: Windows, Solaris, Linux and Mac.
2. Embedded Rich Client Platform (eRCP), release version 1.0
Mission: The goal of this project is to extend the Eclipse
Rich Client Platform (RCP) to embedded devices. eRCP enables
the same Eclipse development model used to create applications
on desktop machines to also be used on devices. The project
includes a subset of RCP components tailored to mobile
devices.
1.0 Features: Utilizes the familiar Eclipse programming model
of applications providing Views to a workbench, reduces RCP
footprint to fit on constrained devices, provides patches to
core components to enable running those components on JME
CDC/Foundation Profile mobile devices, and enables application
binary compatibility across a range of devices with different
input mechanisms and screen types/sizes.
Contributors: IBM (project lead), Nokia and Motorola.
Supports: Windows Mobile 2003/2005, Nokia Series 80 and S60.
3. Mobile Tools for the Java Platform (MTJ), release version 0.7
Mission: The goal of MTJ is to extend the Eclipse platform to
support mobile device Java application development. The
purpose is to develop both frameworks that can be extended by
tool vendors and tools that can be used by third party mobile
java application developers. Mobile Java domain contains
several combinations for configuration (CLDC and CDC) and
profile (MIDP, Foundation Profile and Personal Profile).
Currently the most common combination is CLDC+MIDP.
0.7 Features: A device and emulator framework, a deployment
framework, generic build processes for mobile application
development, mobile device debugging, application creation
wizards, UI design tools, localization, optimization and
security.
Contributors: Nokia (project lead), IBM and SonyEricsson.
Supports: Windows tools, Mobile deployment (Nokia).
"The DSDP project is crucial to fulfilling Eclipse's goal of creating a universal development platform for increasingly complex software," said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. "DSDP has gained rapid momentum, and with these three major releases, the project now provides a broad foundation for commercial device software." "These three releases are important milestones in DSDP's progress as a top-level Eclipse project," said Doug Gaff, leader of the DSDP Project Management Committee (PMC (1) See Portable Media Center. (2) (PCI Mezzanine Card) A PCI-based mezzanine card that is widely adapted to VMEbus, CompactPCI and PCI cards. ) from Wind River. "Wind River is particularly pleased that because of Target Management's successful release, device software developers now have an open source framework and a set of views for managing remote embedded systems Embedded systems Computer systems that cannot be programmed by the user because they are preprogrammed for a specific task and are buried within the equipment they serve. from Eclipse. Wind River plans to adopt the Target Management technology in our next release of Wind River Workbench." "With the eRCP and MTJ MTJ Magnetic Tunnel Junction MTJ Myotendinous Junction MTJ Montrose, CO, USA - Montrose County Airport (Airport Code) MTJ Maximum Tolerable Jitter MTJ Missourians for Tax Justice MTJ Multi-Tone Jamming MTJ Multi Jet project releases, mobile Java developers have two new open source projects to facilitate the development and execution of Java ME See J2ME. applications," said DSDP Project Management Committee member Mark Rogalski. "IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) is using the eRCP project as the base runtime for IBM's Lotus Expeditor Client for Devices. Lotus Expeditor provides a programming model that delivers a universal client experience across the Lotus client portfolio, including Websphere Portal, Lotus Sametime and the new version of Lotus Notes Messaging and groupware software from IBM Lotus that was introduced in 1989 for OS/2 and later expanded to Windows, Mac, Unix, NetWare, AS/400 and S/390. Notes provides e-mail, document sharing, workflow, group discussions and calendaring and scheduling. code-named Hannover. The Lotus Expeditor Toolkit plugs directly into Eclipse or Rational Application Developer." "Nokia sees the first GA releases of these projects as major progress in combining the power of open source development and commercial products for development in the device market," said Mika Hoikkala, project lead for Mobile Tools for the Java Platform Running Java programs under the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Java "platform" refers to the running of Java programs versus Java itself, which is a programming language. Java programs are machine independent and run intact on any hardware platform that has a Java interpreter (JVM). from Nokia. "Though developed in our open source Eclipse project group, the frameworks from MTJ will provide a foundation for Nokia's Carbide carbide, any one of a group of compounds that contain carbon and one other element that is either a metal, boron, or silicon. Generally, a carbide is prepared by heating a metal, metal oxide, or metal hydride with carbon or a carbon compound. .j commercial mobile development tools." Availability Device Software Development Platform releases are available for download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. at: www.eclipse.org/dsdp. About the Eclipse Foundation Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on providing an extensible development platform and application frameworks for building software. Eclipse provides extensible tools and frameworks that span the software development lifecycle, including support for modeling, language development environments for Java, C/C C/C Center to Center C/C Combustion Chamber C/C Command/Control C/C Crew Chief C/C cabin cruiser (US DoD) C/C chief complaint (medical) C/C Channel-to-Channel C/C Communication and Collaboration ++ and others, testing and performance, business intelligence, rich client applications and embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. development. A large, vibrant ecosystem of major technology vendors, innovative start-ups, universities and research institutions and individuals extend, complement and support the Eclipse Platform. The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit Not-for-profit An organization established for charitable, humanitarian, or educational purposes that is exempt from some taxes and in which no one in profits or losses. , member-supported corporation that hosts the Eclipse projects The following is a list of notable projects and plugins for the Eclipse IDE. Official Eclipse projects These projects are maintained by the Eclipse community and hosted by the Eclipse Foundation. . Full details of Eclipse and the Eclipse Foundation are available at www.eclipse.org. |
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